Title 600, REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961

Sec. 934. (1) An individual is qualified for admission to the bar of this state if he or she proves to the satisfaction of the board of law examiners that he or she is an individual of good moral character, is 18 years of age or older, has the required general education, learning…

Sec. 935. (1) An individual may elect to use the uniform bar examination score that the individual achieved on a uniform bar examination administered in another state or territory when applying for admission to the bar of this state, if all of the following occur: (a) The score t…

Sec. 937. Every applicant for admission to the bar is required to have completed successfully prior to commencement of his legal education at least 2 years of study, consisting of not less than 60 "semester hours" or 90 "quarter hours" of study in courses for which credit towards…

Sec. 940. (1) Every applicant for examination is required to be a graduate from a reputable and qualified law school duly incorporated under the laws of this state or another state or territory, or the District of Columbia, of the United States of America. (2) If an applicant is …

Sec. 943. The board of law examiners has the authority to examine, or to cause to be examined, any school, college, junior college, or law school for the purpose of determining whether the standards of education and training required for admission to the bar are being maintained,…

Sec. 946. (1) Any individual who is duly licensed to practice law in the court of last resort of any other state or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia and who applies for admission to the bar of this state without examination is required to prove all of th…

Sec. 947. Subject to section 947a, an individual may apply for admission to the bar in this state, without examination, if he or she meets, and proves to the satisfaction of the board of law examiners that he or she meets, all of the following: (a) Is the spouse of an individual …

Sec. 947a. (1) If a military spouse who meets the requirements of section 947 is admitted to the bar of this state, and is not subject to discipline, suspension, or disbarment for misconduct under section 904, his or her admission to the bar of this state is valid until the date …

Sec. 949. (1) It is the duty of all state, county, and city law enforcement officers to aid the state bar of Michigan and the board of law examiners in any investigation of the conduct of members of the bar, and the character and fitness of persons who apply for admission or rein…

Sec. 9901. The following acts and parts of acts, as amended, are hereby repealed: (1) Revised Statutes of 1846, Chapter Section Numbers Compiled Law Sections (1948) 43 11 to 14 692.311 to 692.314 107 26 691.626 110 1 to 11 692.401 to 692.411 111 1 692.451 130 1 to 18 692.1 to 692…

Sec. 9905. (1) Except as specifically stated or reasonably inferred from the provisions of this act, this act shall not impair or affect any act done, offense committed or right accruing, accrued, or acquired, or liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred prior to the …

Sec. 9906. Notwithstanding section 5 of chapter 1 of the Revised Statutes of 1846, being section 8.5 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, if any part of section 2528 is declared to be unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, the entire section 2528 shall be deemed unconsti…

Sec. 9911. This act shall become effective on January 1, 1963.

Sec. 9921. (1) Effective January 1, 1969, the following courts are abolished except as provided in section 9928: (a) Justices of the peace. (b) Circuit court commissioners. (c) Municipal courts. (d) Police courts. (e) Recorders court of the city of Cadillac. (2) Notwithstanding a…

Sec. 9922. All duties and powers which by law may be performed by justices of the peace, circuit court commissioners, judges of municipal courts, judges of police courts and judges of the recorders court of Cadillac shall be performed after December 31, 1968 by the district court…

Sec. 9923. (1) After December 31, 1968, any elected incumbent associate municipal judge who is prohibited from practicing law pursuant to state statute or city charter or ordinance and any elected incumbent municipal judge who serves in a city which is in and of itself a district…

Sec. 9924. (1) All files, records, funds, and pending cases of the courts abolished under section 9921 or courts or divisions of courts abolished on or after April 1, 1973, and succeeded by the district court shall be transferred to the district court of the district in which the…

Sec. 9924a. The records, files, pleadings, process, papers, dockets, journals and indices of justices of the peace, justice courts, municipal courts, police courts and the recorders court of the city of Cadillac abolished effective January 1, 1969, may be destroyed on or after Ja…

Sec. 9925. In the primary election of judges of the district court to be held in 1968, all candidates for the office shall file petitions or a filing fee of $100.00 as provided by law.

Sec. 9926. (1) The first general election of judges of the district court shall be held in 1968 and in that election only, the terms of office of the judges of the district court shall be as follows: NUMBER OF JUDGES TO BE ELECTED IN A DISTRICT OR DIVISION LENGTH OF TERM OF JUDGE…

Sec. 9927. The candidates receiving the highest number of votes in the 1968 general election shall serve the longest terms available at such election.

Sec. 9928. (1) The district court shall not function nor shall district judges be elected in any district of the third class in which 1 or more cities that maintain municipal courts and that contain, individually or in the aggregate, more than 50% of the population of the distric…

Sec. 9930. (1) Effective January 1, 1971, all municipal courts which were not abolished by section 9921 due to the action of municipal governing bodies pursuant to the provisions of section 9928 are abolished. (2) Effective January 1, 1971, the district court shall function in th…

Sec. 9931. (1) The recorder's court of the city of Detroit is abolished and merged with the third judicial circuit of the circuit court effective October 1, 1997. The incumbent judges of the recorder's court of the city of Detroit on September 30, 1997 shall become judges of the …

Sec. 9932. (1) The salary of each judge of a municipal court of record, including the chief judge and recorder, shall be determined as provided in this section. (2) Subject to subsection (4), each judge of the municipal court of record, including the chief judge and the recorder,…

Sec. 9934. (1) The district court shall commence to function in the forty-fifth-a and forty-fifth-b districts as of January 1, 1975 and as of that date all municipal courts within the district shall be abolished. (2) Effective January 1, 1975, the elected incumbent attorney munic…

Sec. 9935. (1) Effective December 1, 1977, the district court shall commence to function in the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth and twenty-seventh districts and as of that date, all municipal courts within those districts shall be abolished. (2) Effective December 1, 1977, the electe…

Sec. 9936. (1) Effective November 1, 1978, the district court shall commence to function in the fortieth district and in the fourth division of the fifty-second district and as of that date, all municipal courts within that district and that election division shall be abolished. …

Sec. 9937. (1) Effective January 1, 1979, the district court shall commence to function in the twenty-sixth, twenty-eighth, thirtieth, thirty-first, thirty-second-a, sixty-second-a and sixty-second-b districts and as of that date, all municipal courts within those districts shall…

Sec. 9938. (1) Effective January 1, 1980, the district court shall commence to function in the twenty-third district and as of that date, the municipal court within that district shall be abolished. Effective January 1, 1981, the district court shall commence to function in the f…

Sec. 9938a. (1) Effective January 1, 2004, the district court shall commence to function in the thirty-eighth district and, as of that date, the municipal court within that district is abolished. The terms of the incumbent municipal judges in Eastpointe shall expire at 12 midnigh…

Sec. 9939. (1) All causes of action transferred to the district court pursuant to section 9924 (1) shall be as valid and subsisting as they were in the court from which they were transferred. All orders and judgments entered before the respective dates on which municipal courts a…

Sec. 9940. (1) Subject to subsection (5), the district court shall commence to function as of January 1, 1983 in the thirty-second-b district and as of that date, all municipal courts within that district are abolished. The term of the incumbent municipal judges in each city that…

Sec. 9941. (1) Effective September 1, 1981, the district court shall commence to function in the thirty-sixth district and as of that date the common pleas court of the city of Detroit and the traffic and ordinance division of the recorder's court of the city of Detroit are aboli…

Sec. 9943. (1) Commencing on the effective date of this section and until September 1, 1981, the judges of the common pleas court of the city of Detroit shall carry out the administrative duties and shall exercise the administrative powers of the district court for the thirty-six…

Sec. 9945. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Base personnel expense" means the total cost of compensation of employees of the state judicial council serving in the district court in the thirty-sixth district paid by the state pursuant to section 8272 between October 1, 1981, and …

Sec. 9947. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this act, the legislature shall appropriate sufficient funds in order to fund at least 31.5% of all net trial court operational expenses, subject to the offset provisions of subsection (6), beginning with the state fiscal year that b…